TR's Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy
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- Synopsis
- A riveting new account of Theodore Roosevelt&’s impassioned crusade for military preparedness as America fitfully stumbles into World War I, spectacularly punctuated by his unique tongue-lashings of the vacillating Woodrow Wilson, his rousing advocacy of a masculine, pro-Allied &“Americanism,&” a death-defying compulsion for personal front-line combat, a gingerly rapprochement with GOP power brokers—and, yes, perhaps, even another presidential campaign. Roosevelt is a towering Greek god of war. But Greek gods begat Greek tragedies. His own entreaties to don the uniform are rebuffed, and he remains stateside. But his four sons fight &“over there&” with heartbreaking consequences: two are wounded; his youngest and most loved child dies in aerial combat. Yet, though grieving and weary, TR may yet surmount everything with one monumentally odds-defying last triumph. Poised at the very brink of a final return to the White House, death stills his indomitable spirit.In his lively, witty, blow-by-blow style, David Pietrusza captures, through the lens of the Bull Moose, the 1916 presidential campaign, America&’s entry into the Great War in 1917, Woodrow Wilson&’s presidency, and the last years of one of American history&’s greatest men, who said on his death bed at the age of sixty, &“I promised myself that I would work up to the hilt until I was sixty, and I have done it. I have kept my promise….&” Pietrusza not only transports readers with his dramatic portraits of TR, his hated rival Wilson, and politics in wild flux but also poignantly chronicles the horrific price a family pays in war.
- Copyright:
- 2018
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 424 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781493028887
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781493049127
- Publisher:
- Globe Pequot Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 10/08/25
- Copyrighted By:
- David Pietrusza
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.